At 5:16 PM 4/9/5, Jed Rothwell wrote: [snip] >Also bear in mind that Japanese males are all literate, educated, and they >follow the directions on the box, unlike Third World people. They are much >less likely to make a stupid mistake, and stupid mistakes are the main >cause of failure.
Failure from stupid mistakes, and from errors in judgement when condoms are not available or just not desirable, are all factors that must be included in the infection probability p for any given modality. People in chaste or monogamous groups ar protected from these mistakes. Again, touting condom use as "safe" is reckless. The reasonable thing to do is to provide the relevant statistics. Regards, Horace Heffner
